Times are tough at high street retailer Debenhams, with annual profits plummeting this week, but the company has just signed a two-year deal with ScottishPower to supply all of its 178 UK stores with ‘green’ electricity. ScottishPower will supply 35MW of electricity from renewable sources per month to Debenhams stores
The government is facing a back-bench revolt over plans to leave aviation and shipping out of the UK’s targets for cutting CO2 emissions. New climate change and energy minister Ed Miliband last week commmitted the UK to cutting CO2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. But aviation and
forests
After more than 20 years research, boffins in Michigan have found moderate increases in temperature and nitrogen from atmospheric pollution actually improve forest productivity. Researchers found trees grow faster at higher temperatures and store more carbon at greater concentrations of nitrogen, which is a constituent of acid rain, providing there
The government is planning on taking a zero tolerance approach to waste in six towns across England. Environment minister Jane Kennedy said the Zero Waste Places policy aims to go as far as possible in reducing the environmental impact of waste, whether it be at home in the workplace or
Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
Rising energy costs are starting to hurt consumers, encouraging them to look for cheaper or more efficient methods of powering their homes. A Norwich and Peterborough Building Society survey found 69 per cent of people were more likely to install energy efficient features in their homes now compared to this
Microsoft
This is one we missed from the Paris car show earlier this month. Car maker Fiat has launched software that will analyse a driver’s fuel consumption and emissions on each journey and then advise them how to improve their driving to create less environmental impact, and cut their fuel
climate
Here’s this week’s Jurdy cartoon. Enjoy…
offshore wind farm
The UK is now the world leader in offshore wind generation. With 597MW of fully constructed wind farms the UK now has the potential to power the equivalent of 300,000 homes. This achievement has been made after building work finished at Centrica’s Lynn and Inner Dowsing farms near
biofuel
London’s first biogas fuelling station has been installed at Camden council’s York Way Depot. As part of a commercial trial between Gasrec, Veolia Environmental Services and Iveco, a CBM (compressed biomethane) powered street cleansing vehicle will now roam the streets of Camden. The fuelling station will be able
greenfuel
Algae farming biofuels start-up GreenFuel Technologies is teaming up with Spanish engineering company Aurantia to build a $92m greenhouse plant in Spain to grow algae for recycling industrial CO2 emissions into high-value feeds, foods and fuels. The project consists of a series of development stage, which could eventually scale to
nanowire
Tech company HP is aiming to double its global purchases of renewable power from under four per cent this year to eight per cent by 2012. To help meet this new goal HP has unveiled a range of renewable energy initiatives in its facilities, research and products. HP has recently
climate
Global warming is accelerating at a faster rate than climate change experts had previously predicted, the WWF has warned. A collection of the latest scientific research by the WWF claims the science of climate change has moved on in the year since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global
